‘Open-air prison’ in southern Mexico traps thousands of migrants
By Taylor Stevens/Cronkite Borderlands Project
June 10, 2022
TAPACHULA, MEXICO – The desperation here is palpable.
It fills the stifling air as migrants line up in the hot sun outside the National Migration Institute in hopes of receiving an interview, their children close at hand and their visa applications tucked under their arms in colorful protected sleeves so the papers won’t get ruined on the nights their families sleep outside in the rain.
It strains the voices of the asylum seekers protesting outside a news conference by Mexico’s president, as they chant demands for action before some sew their mouths shut in defiant, gruesome silence.
And it wells in the eyes of displaced Haitians – struggling to deal with a system entrenched in anti-Black racism – when they throw rocks and set fires on the streets to bring attention to their plight.
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2022/06/10/open-air-prison-in-southern-mexico-traps-thousands-of-migrants/
